Editing Fourth International (section)

== Second World Congress ==
The Second World Congress in April 1948 was attended by delegates from 22 sections. It debated a range of resolutions on the [[Jewish Question]], Stalinism, the colonial countries and the specific situations facing sections in certain countries.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.marxists.org/history/etol/document/fi/1938-1949/fi-2ndcongress/index.htm |title=2nd Congress of the Fourth International}}</ref> By this point the FI was united around the view that the Eastern European "[[buffer state]]s" were still capitalist countries.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.marxists.org/history/etol/document/fi/1938-1949/fi-2ndcongress/1948-congress02.htm |title=The USSR and Stalinism |magazine=Fourth International |date=June 1948}}</ref>

The Congress was especially notable for bringing the International into much closer contact with Trotskyist groups from across the globe. These included such significant groups as the [[Revolutionary Workers' Party (Bolivia)|Revolutionary Workers' Party]] of [[Bolivia]] and the [[Lanka Sama Samaja Party]] in what was then [[Ceylon]],<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://listserv.cddc.vt.edu/marxists/history/etol/document/fi/1950-1953/fi-3rdcongress/1951-congress12.htm |title=The Third World Congress of the Fourth International |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060309045530/http://listserv.cddc.vt.edu/marxists/history/etol/document/fi/1950-1953/fi-3rdcongress/1951-congress12.htm |archive-date=9 March 2006 |magazine=Fourth International |date=November 1951}}</ref> but the previously large Vietnamese Trotskyist groups had mostly been eliminated or absorbed by the supporters of [[Ho Chi Minh]].<ref>
{{cite journal|url=http://www.revolutionary-history.co.uk/backiss/Vol3/No2/Pirani.html |title=The Fourth International in Vietnam |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060218092924/http://www.revolutionary-history.co.uk/backiss/Vol3/No2/Pirani.html |archive-date=18 February 2006 |journal=[[Revolutionary History]] |volume=3 |number=2 |date=Autumn 1990}}</ref>

After the Second World Congress in 1948, the International Secretariat attempted to open communications with [[Josip Broz Tito]]'s regime in [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]].<ref>{{cite magazine|author=International Secretariat of the Fourth International |url=http://www.marxists.org/history/etol/document/fi/yugoslavia/yugo01.htm |title=An Open Letter to Congress, Central Committee and Members of the Yugoslav Communist Party |magazine=Fourth International |date=July 1948}}</ref> In their analysis, it differed from the rest of the [[Eastern Bloc]] because it was established by the [[Partisan (military)|partisan]]s of World War II who had fought against Nazi occupation, as opposed to by Stalin's invading armies. The British RCP, led by [[Jock Haston]] and supported by [[Ted Grant]], were highly critical of this move.<ref name="War" />